| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 202 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index. |
| Contents |
Ethnic modernisms and their avant-gardes -- Anzia Yezierska and the experience of the assimilated Jew: The new immigration as ethnic catalyst ; The experience of immigrant English in Hungry hearts ; The conscious pariah: toward a transnational aesthetics ; From Hollywood to Hester street: the image of the assimilated Jew in Hungry hearts the film -- Black folk culture and the aesthetics of dislocation in Zora Neale Hurston: Race, nation and art: the Harlem Renaissance ; The folk in Harlem: Zora Neale Hurston's urban folklore ; The transnational perspective: the experience of the African diaspora in Tell my horse and Moses, man of the mountain ; "Getting in touch with the true South": pet Negroes, white crackers and racial staging in Seraph on the Suwanee -- White mythologies: Jean Rhys's aesthetics of posthumanism: Wide sargasso sea: white masks and their creolization ; An expatriate among expatriates: the banality of exile ; Good morning, midnight: commodity, distraction, and the displaced masses. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Emigration and immigration in literature. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. |
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Rhys, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Rhys, Jean. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature. |
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Expatriation in literature.
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Expatriation in literature. |
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Immigrants in literature.
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Immigrants in literature. |
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Jews in literature.
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Jews in literature. |
| ISBN |
0312293453 |
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